Saturday 5 November 1938

It was Saturday, under the sign of Scorpio. The US president was Franklin D. Roosevelt (Democratic).
Famous people born on this day include Joe Dassin and Enéas Carneiro.
The Lady Vanishes, directed by Alfred Hitchcock, was one of the most viewed movies released in 1938
while Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier was one of the best selling books.
On TV people were watching Guest Night.
But much more happened that day: find out below..

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Historical Events

Holidays:

R.C. Saints - November 5th is the feast day of the following Roman Catholic Saints: St. Bertilia

St. Laetus

Pope Zachary

St. Sylvia

St. Magnus

St. Galation

St. Fibitius

St. Felix and Eusebius

St. Elizabeth

St. Dominator

Ancient Latvia - the festival Katrina

United Kingdom and New Zealand - Guy Fawkes night (also called Bonfire night; or Fireworks night): Failure of the Gunpowder Plot to blow up Parliament in 1605 is celebrated with bonfires and fireworks.

St. Domninus

Famous Birthdays:

Joe Dassin: American-born French singer-songwriter, the son of American film director Jules Dassin (1911–2008) and Béatrice Launer (1913–2005), a New York-born violinist.

Genealogy: find out your family heritage

Books

With these words, the reader is ushered into an isolated gray stone mansion on the windswept Cornish coast, as the second Mrs. Maxim de Winter recalls the chilling events that transpired as she began her new life as the young ...

This number-one bestselling novel is based on the true story of one of the most notorious murder cases in French history. The heroine, Henriette Deluzy-Desportes, governess to the children of the Duc de Praslin, found herself strangely drawn to her ...